David Rowe captures the significance of the last-minute settlement between Fox and Dominion Voting Systems: It’s less a punishment for having spread malicious lies to a trusting audience than it is hush money paid to make a problem go away.As he notes, the MAGA crowd will continue to play the role of gullible marks in […]
Upcoming appearances by cartoonists. Political Cartoons from the Holocaust to Ukraine: Resistance to Tyranny This webinar will explore the use of political cartoons during the Holocaust and in today’s war in Ukraine. Political cartoons give hard-hitting social commentary on critical events to influence action. Dr. Rafael Medoff will speak about cartoonists who documented the atrocities […]
Walt Handelsman isn’t the only cartoonist to depict little kids as the source of the recent security leak, and it’s important to note two things: One is that the leaker, Jack Teixeira, was arrested just about the time this cartoon first appeared, a photo-finish that means Handelsman knew only that the leak had come from […]
The other day Mike Peterson noted that The Flying McCoys panel was in rerun status. That has led me to speculate on the possible cause.A year ago Glenn McCoy returned to the funny pages after a Hollywood sojourn. Then last month Glenn “abandoned” The Duplex, his last daily being March 18, 2023. That was followed […]
I’m really sorry the Dominion/Fox trial isn’t being televised. As Ed Hall says, it’s going to be a slam-dunk for Dominion to prove that Fox intentionally, knowingly lied about them, and it would be good to have it all out in the open for everyone to see.But, then again, let’s not forget the OJ Simpson […]
Syndicate comics editor and gay rights advocate Sharon Malheiro has passed away. From the obituary: Sharon Malheiro passed peacefully in her sleep on April 10, 2023… She attended Drake University, class of 1978, graduating with a Degree in Journalism. From 1979 to 1987 she served as managing editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune […]
Let’s start with Daddy’s Home (Creators) and no, I haven’t finished doing my taxes yet, but I’m finished dealing with the cost of putting kids through college, and somewhere in my storehouse of columns I wrote in the 90s is a rant about how college costs should be tax deductible.And now they are sorta kinda, […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Missed in March – – Additional April arrivals – –
From the National Cartoonists Society: On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is our great pleasure to announce that Brian Walker will be awarded the Silver T-Square at the 77th Annual Reuben Awards in Jersey City! As the NCS notes Brian Walker is – a writer of comic strips– […]
“I do think it’s a big part of a cartoonist’s job to spread as much joy as they can,” Bondia said. And Tauhid Bondia seems to be succeeding in that. His Crabgrass is one of the most enjoyable and funny comic strips around, and the art pleases the eyes as much as the humor pleases […]
The ethical issues around Clarence Thomas are rising with the revelation by Pro Publica that not only did he accept expensive vacations from a GOP activist who also supported Ginni Thomas’s efforts to overthrow the government, but he took money from him as well in the form of having the billionaire “buy” Thomas’s mother’s home, […]
New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren has passed away. From VTDigger: Edward Koren, who spent more than six decades delighting readers of the New Yorker with his unmistakably shaggy and joyous cartoons, died Friday at his home in Brookfield. He was 87 years old. Koren’s wife, Curtis, confirmed his death to the New York Times. sold […]
The familiar Flo and Friends have been a part of Jenny Campbell‘s life for over twenty years, less familiar to many of us is her other friends at Rescue Village, also a 20+ year affair. That changes with the publication of a new book. As Rescue Village informs us: For more than two decades, Jenny […]
Ivan Ehlers reminds me of how lucky I am to have been getting my Internet from a 4G connection rather than cable for the past two years. Apparently, since I get my signal from towers rather than a cable head end, Internet advertisers have no idea where I live, and the preponderance of ads I […]
Comics historian Maurice Horn has passed away. A death notice for famed comics historian Maurice Horn has been discovered. Maurice Horn became the preeminent comics historian of the 1960s through the 1980s with his books. It was Maurice Horn’s massive World Encyclopedia of Comics in 1976 that put his name front and center. Though not […]